Awesome "Captain America" Poster is Here!

While we're only days away from seeing the first footage from "Captain America: The First Avenger," which will play during the Super Bowl, Marvel has unveiled the official poster for the film. Check it out below.

The story will focus on the early days of the Marvel Universe when Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into the Super Soldier known as Captain America.

The new movie is directed by Joe Johnston (The Wolfman) and in addition to Evans, the new movie stars Hugo Weaving (The Matrix), Sebastian Stan (Bucky) and Hayley Atwell (Peggy Carter). It is scheduled to hit theaters on July 22nd.

Put his f*cking helmet on. What's-his-face is not a big enough star to bring in the crowds by simply showing his clueless mug. And if you can't make him look cool enough with it on, then maybe you're not the right people to be making this damn movie!

Yeah, our country rushed itself into a few wars before thinking it through, that's ours to deal with, but don't blame the US for Britain getting involved.
France didn't get involved because their President chose not to, your leader had the same decision to make, he made the wrong one. Just because your PM was dumb enough to trust George Bush doesn't give you cause to put the blame on the US.
Just sayin'.

And sh*t if you're surprised by underhanded stuff going on in politics you better never read the political section of any newspaper again.
That stuff happens as frequently as people saying we're *this* close to change.

I understand what the article is talking about--the same thing was done with Judge Dredd, in a way. But Evans isn't exactly a Hollywood A-lister. I mean, what's the last really successful movie he was in? Not exactly Sly Stallone here. And Cap--while not as popular as Wolverine--it's definitely not as obscure as Dredd. I'll argue (although I shouldn't) that by showing this guy's face they run a greater risk of confusing the audience, who probably only remember him from his role as the Human Torch, than pulling them with this guy's magnetic super-stardom (sarcasm.) But whatever. I just hope the movie isn't as bad as everything else I've seen Evans in.

*Except Sunshine and that Pilgrim movie everyone says is good, but I have never seen.*

I bet they do make some reference to vibranium, but not to Wakanda. In Iron Man 2 Tony Stark reinvents the element his father had conceived of. I think it's highly possible his father builds Cap's shield from his mystery metal.

Ohhhh hells yes!!!! Now this is what Capt. America should look like. Tall, 6 pack, piercing sky blue eyes, and a gorgeous face. I've loved Chris Evans since Fantastic Four. Those movies really sucked d*ck but this eye candy was enough to make watching them worth my time. That shield Chris is holding right around his fun stick is so tentalizing. What a hu-hu-hu-hottie and what a tease, huh?!

@boogiel: I love Katy Perry! She was hilarious on SNL in that Elmo skit. It was like she was flipping off the haters who were making such a big deal about her outfit on Sesame Street (which to me didn't seem that bad). Good for her.

As I have said on other "CA" posts, most of what is coming out from this movie seems to be and look good includong above poster...just hope the trailer lives up to it and the movie then lives upto the trailer.

The f*ck with those Wolfman comments. Direction in this movie was pretty good, especialy in the action scenes (except the final battle) as well as acting. The thing that sucked was the script. Besides, the directors cut is much better than theatrical realese.

Why are all the mutants confined to the 20th century? I know the Celestials are responsible, but basically mutants didn't arrive on the scene until after 1952 or so, coinciding with the highly erroneous idea that nuclear waste and radiation can positively mutate a creature into something quite fantastical. Lots of B films approached this scenario with reckless abandon.

So, if mutants were manipulated into being millions of years ago, why did they show up only after 1952 or so?

And I think this is why characters like Batman and Superman are far more enduring. Batman is a mere mortal, flawed and complex, Superman is an average alien made powerful by our yellow sun. He's made tragic and complex by his lack of vulnerabilities and his loneliness. And that consequently makes the more enduring, timeless and less contrived. both of these DC characterisations are also more organic.

Which brings me back to Captain America. He's just not very complex. He's less contrived than the mutants, but he's so well-rooted in WW2 that he harkens back to much older and nearly forgotten era. You have to cryogenically freeze him, or clone him, or replace him with another costume-wearer, to maintain even his presence, much less his viability and believability in this age. He's a relic, a ancient character rooted in an time long lost.

And because of this you have to get very contrived with the story to make him acceptable to the modern masses, nevermind that he's not nearly as well developed as Batman or Superman, or ven his Marvel contemporaries who have had more time to evolve, no pun intended.

I expect this film to fail at least critically, but it will make some money, of course. Sorry.

the reason the mutants only showed up in recent events is because they are manmade, not a natural occurance of evolution. Apocalypse was the first mutant, an ancient Egyptian who was empowered by a crashed Celestial ship. Over the milennia he had many offspring and his gene spread onward, though very rarely would it manifest in powers.
In the 1700s, the witches of Salem drew descendants of the ancient dna to New England, and a family that escaped to London to form the Hellfire Club. In the mid 1800s, a doctor named Nathaniel Essex came to London study some of the bizarre deformities that were being born. He discovered Apocalypse in a sarcophagus in a deep coma. He awoke him and began transplanting his blood into homeless people he found. Eventually he perfected the science of giving people powers. It rarely turned out well, but their offspring also carried Apocalypse's genes.
Essex called his discovery the Essex-factor, later the X-factor, and he eventually was transformed by Apocalypse into the being called Mr. Sinister. As Essex he toured the world stealing victims from various wars and internment camps, eventually leading to the boom of mutant offspring of the 20th century.

So most of Marvel's mutants trace their abilities to Sinister and Apocalypse, though a few are the offspring of possessed Salem witches.